Computer Quotes · Page 40

I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I'm hugely introverted, not atypical of math majors.

— Judith Faulkner

Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime.

— Muhammad Waseem

Allowing the computer to do one thing is only boring if you don't use the time that the computer saves you to…

— Richie Hawtin

Whether we're fighting climate change or going to space, everything is moved forward by computers, and we don't have enough people who…

— Richard Branson

In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obey without kidding around, and they…

— Eduardo Galeano

I'm certainly not computer savvy, at all. I joined Twitter kicking and screaming, and very reluctantly.

— Guillermo Diaz

There are wavelengths that people cannot see, there are sounds that people cannot hear, and maybe computers have thoughts that people cannot…

— Richard Hamming

We . . . declared our independence 200 years ago, and we are not about to lose it now to paper shufflers and computers.

— Gerald R. Ford

In the entire history of the human species, every tool we've invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The…

— David Gerrold

The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer: If you're an artist, a leader or someone seeking to…

— Seth Godin

Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and…

— Serge Haroche

There are interactions with characters within the game which I think are pretty neatly done considering the limitations that you have to…

— Fred Saberhagen

I don't know when they first had feeds. Like maybe, fifty or a hundred years ago. Before that, they had to use…

— Anonymous

I was obsessed with the idea of sitting next to someone and playing a game that we were both competing in, and…

— Robin Hunicke

Holland's and Kauffman's work, together with Dawkins' simulations of evolution and Varela's models of autopoietic systems, provide essential inspiration for the new…

— John Henry Holland

I'm bullish on writing. Movies, radio, television, and now digital media - everything was supposed to push us away from text, to…

— Tim Carmody

I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't…

— Ray Bradbury

Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work.

— Rodney Brooks

You can sit in front of a computer and have a blank slate and be completely overwhelmed by the possibilities and not…

— Rob Brown

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

— Kent Conrad

Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve…

— Alfred Aho

Do what's good for humans, modeled on how humans already do things; ignore what's convenient for computers.

— Stewart Brand

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

— Donald Knuth

Kids today are so intelligent and computer savvy, so pairing an interactive computer world with something cuddly seems like a natural fit.

— Ty Warner

I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear.

— Nicolas Cage

Taxpayers have spent more than $200 billion in the last decade on computer systems that are antiquated, incompatible, and not doing the job.

— William Cohen

At some stage in the process, most mainstream pop records are being manipulated and possibly completely rebuilt on a computer, with a…

— James Blake

I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my head.…

— George R. R. Martin

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.

— Anonymous

The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.

— Larry Wall

It's an incredible privilege to be able to sit in front of a computer and spend a few hours just thinking and…

— Nick Blaemire

You don't meet computer game characters when you use a controller. You control computer game characters.

— Peter Molyneux

The architect holds much knowledge, but is not a specialist. Especially with the computer and technology, the amount of knowledge an architect…

— Santiago Calatrava

I made my first website in sixth grade. I was the only girl in my computer programming class.

— iJustine

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills…

— James Gleick

Computers have their own aleatoric aspect, too. They crash! But I'm a knob person. I like twiddling knobs.

— Zeena Parkins

I've often gotten the feeling that the only people who have learned from computer assisted instruction are the authors.

— Ben Shneiderman

I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand…

— Mary Ann Hoberman

I have always wanted some way that you could make a surface in a computer, like you pick up a piece of…

— Owsley Stanley

We can make life in the computer. Granted, it's limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct…

— Chris Adami